Allan Moyle

screenwriter, director, producer, actor
educated McGill University, Montreal
unconventional filmmaker who moved from independent cinema to the Hollywood
began his career as an actor and screenwriter working in close collaboration with Frank Vitale, an independent filmmaker
their film Montreal Main (1973) was a quasi-documentary about gay life in Montreal
Moyle made his directorial debut with The Rubber Gun (1977), an study of the city's drug culture
acted in David Cronenberg's Rabid (1977) and had a major supporting role in Richard Benner's Outrageous! (1977).
the critically lambasted Times Square (1980) was Moyle's first studio directing assignment
it was such an unpleasant experience that he succumbed to a stress-related disorder that caused all his hair to fall out
left the industry for ten years during which he wrote a novel and several screenplays
became a sought-after writer-director after the success of Pump Up the Volume (1990), a hit starring Christian Slater
filmography